Friday, May 1, 2009

iPhone gives you the chance to play God!

Alright, fair cop, I’m obviously a technology hermit, because until this juncture in my life – I had never heard of an iPhone (by Apple).

This is hardly a surprise, since I was probably Telecom New Zealand’s last 025 cell phone-owner.

So when I first came across this intriguing article, I needed to get my bearings by asking around the office “what’s an iPhone?” to be told, by a younger member, “it’s an expensive cell-phone you can play games on and listen to music on”.

For iPhone owners, one of these new games to come out, is ‘Pocket God’.

This is what the touch-screen game ‘Pocket God’ looks like to play, so you getter a better idea of the game itself & what the controversy is all about.

Now before you go thinking the criticism of a game in which you play God, has to have come from theist groups – you’d be wrong.

To date, there hasn’t been a whimper of disquiet at a depiction of indiscriminate ‘Old Testament’ style slaughter, from within N.Z Churches.

No in-fact, its local Pacific Islander groups, that feel the brown-skinned men in hula skirts are ‘inappropriate’ and ‘racist’.

The obvious Easter Island references, seemed to have escaped them completely.

So, moving-on folks.

One can only presume the silence from Churches regarding ‘Pocket God’ mean the games creators were adequately able to re-create their chosen God in all his power & glory?

A realistic depiction of a God, that summarily burns, drowns, squashes his cowering creations in their thousands.

A genocidal God that has as much fun & pleasure dishing-out indiscriminate death, as iPhone owners have, with their harmless game.

Only, as far as believers are concerned, homicidal God(s) do this for real, every second of every day.